Yeah, absolutely. You can white balance to non-white colors to tint the video. Just try it. If you balance to yellow you get a blueish cast, and vice versa.

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Originally posted by titaniumdoughnut:
Yeah, absolutely. You can white balance to non-white colors to tint the video. Just try it. If you balance to yellow you get a blueish cast, and vice versa.

Also, do warm or cool color cards for white balancing have a noticeable effect on the overall look or just on skin tones. Here is a link to what I'm talking about.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=produ...dedTroughType=search

Guaranteed film look:

shoot on film.

If you haven't already followed the bandwagon and spent $3k on a DVX-100, you can afford to shoot quite a bit of 16mm! Congratulations. Look for a Bolex, Scoopic, etc. for $1-600 and spend the rest on film and transfer.

Otherwise, light carefully (video has less latitude than many film stocks), get a camera with manual focus, exposure, and shutter speed, and set the shutter to 1/60s or slower. Use a tripod.

Avoid shooting at mid-day. Early morning or sunset will look better.

Warm and cool color cards will affect the entire spectrum. Basically, you're showing the camera a color and saying "this is white" and it obeys you and shifts the colors one way or another to make that color white.

Haha...always depend on Evan to sell the celluloid route. To be honest I wish I could've heard of that earlier--I would love to shoot on real film.

I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned on this thread yet, but if you already own a MiniDV camera you should consider getting one of these, a 35mm adapter. You can read up on what it does at that link.

i believe that spending time and money on getting DV to look like it's not DV is a huge squandering of resources.

time could be spent on improving your story, your actors, your sense of rhythm, pacing, balance. things you have to learn over time, things that can't be taught.

no one is ever going to believe your DV footage doesn't look like DV. anyone that can tell the difference between DV and film can tell the difference between DV and footage trying not to look like DV.

if you want things to look better, spend money on equipment. buy higher quality cameras, buy higher quality lights, buy a professional workstation to color-correct on, buy a color calibration tool to make sure you monitor is set up properly.

if you really want it to look like film, make it look like film.


but if you want to make movies, spend your time making movies, and don't worry about how it looks or spend too much time trying to get the footage to do things it can't.

It is impossible to create the 35mm film look.

You can get close by using 35mm prime lenses on it, light it well too.

If you cant rent those lenses, try to shoot on a long lens as much as possible (put the camera far away from actors, zoom in and film it that way) to create some more depth. Also, shoot on a low F Stop